Season 2 | Episode 11

This episode is a love note to my beloved former home, Los Angeles. In it, I read an essay from 2020, speaking to liminal spaces and times of transition that our collective, trauma-ridden bodies can all relate to.

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 10

In this episode, I talk about the middle as the middle (vs. the end, as we so often make it), and share some pre-pregnancy thoughts about the postpartum period of all large creative works, not just the human ones. Season 2 coming next year!

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 9

In this episode, I speak to the obliteration of early motherhood and continue debunking the myth that a mother and a practicing artist cannot co-exist within the same body. For a new essay further exploring this pervasive cultural narrative, head over to the newsletter iteration of R I T E S.

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 8

In this episode, I speak to the transformative potency of gratitude lists, bringing them back from the written-off wasteland of substance-less self-help idioms.

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 7

In this episode, I speak to the power of small actions and simple devotions, reframing creative practice as something which can retain its potency, even when existing in the cracks.

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 6

In this episode, I share a guided improvisatory movement practice created for any body and any space.

PLAYLIST:

I. RITUAL

II. SOVEREIGNTY

III. POSTURING

IV. SINNER (OBJECT AS SUBJECT)

V. WEAPONRY (OBJECT AS SUBJECT)

VI. OPOSSUM IN HEADLIGHTS

VII. THIS

VIII.KNIVES

IX. POM POM MOVES (OBJECT AS SUBJECT)

X. iii. (OBJECT AS SUBJECT)

All music and lyrics written by Paris Hurley. All content — including music, concept, and text — copyright Paris Hurley + Paris Hurley Publishing.

Featuring performances by:

Paris Hurley: vocals / floor tom / violin / bass / guitar

Jherek Bischoff: bass / upright bass / cello / guitar / guitarone

Gina Young: bass / vocalsEmilia Richeson: floor tom / vocals

Corey Fogel: drums

Paul Kikuchi: drums / percussion

Produced by Paris Hurley + Jherek Bischoff

Artists / Spaces mentioned in the episode:

Shannon Stewart

Vanessa DeWolf

Chantael Takeuchi

Alice Gosti

Studio Current

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 5

In this episode, I read a piece from the newsletter archive speaking to some perimenopause realities, and envision a future of demystification and legibility for this common, global experience.

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 4

In this episode, I speak to the necessity of “mistakes” within any creative practice and offer some structural ideas for how to grow or strengthen your willingness to allow them.

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 3

In this week’s show, I speak to our dire need to both be compassionately witnessed and to compassionately witness others, citing our cultural lack of knowledge around birth, and shedding a light on those who have given birth in Gaza throughout the past year. If hearing some surgical specifics of a cesarean is not where you’re at today, I’ll meet you back here next week.

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe

Season 1 | Episode 2

In this week’s show, I offer an antidote to the archetype of destructive obsession we’ve come to associate with genius, arguing the work of mundane tasks and the humility of taking great care as essential components of any creative life.

Mentioned in the episode:

Money Witch

Sarah Faith Gottesdiener / Moonbeaming

Beth Pickens: books / podcast

Elizabeth Gilbert's TED talk on genius

R I T E S is a podcast from composer, musician, and writer, Paris Hurley. In these weekly episodes, she shares personal essays about creative practice, art-making, and motherhood. Paid subscribers also receive her sonic prayers—a new piece of music released monthly just to this community. For more of Paris' work, you can hear OBJECT AS SUBJECT wherever you listen to your music or sign up for her weekly newsletter, where she shares additional writing and updates on all of her projects.

R I T E S was created, edited, and produced by Paris Hurley. All music, including the theme song, A Body Not Our Own is by OBJECT AS SUBJECT in collaboration with producer, Ben Kaplan of Lost Future Records.  

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit parishurley.substack.com/subscribe